A short history of the Galaxy J lineup and the Galaxy J MAX leaked

The Galaxy J lineup was a very interesting lineup, concentrated on making an affordable smartphone that was made by a good brand.

The Galaxy J back in late 2013, a very interesting smartphone made for China. It came in Blue, Red and White. It had a rear 13MP AutoFocus camera that could record video at 2160p and 30fps, so it recorded in 4K, which was a feature that should have made the phone cost as much as a flagship. the front camera was a 2MP camera that recorded in HD at 1080p and it captured video at 30fps. The phone was made of plastic. It came with Android 4.3, but it received a KitKat update as well as a Lollipop update.

In February 2015, the Galaxy J1 came out, with Android 4.4.4 KitKat. It was the first Galaxy J to come in Black. It included Blue in its colour scheme, but Red left the Galaxy J series ever since. It was a phone with a 5MP Autofocus camera that recorded video at 720p which is HD, but 1080p would be too much to ask for at that price tag, and records video at 30fps, and it has a 2MP front camera. This phone was made with plastic too. It also had a 4.3" display.

In June 2015, the Galaxy J5 came out, and since then the lineup became rather well known and things got really interesting for the Galaxy J lineup. It was the best Galaxy J made yet. It was the first Galaxy J to have Lollipop. It came with a Gold version too, Blue was not available unfortunately, but Gold was a good replacement. You could even say that it was a cheap Galaxy S6, and it even received a Marshmallow update recently, so that makes things even better. It had a 13MP camera that recorded at 1080p, not as good as the Galaxy J, but it was good. The front camera was a 5MP camera and it had an LED selfie flash too. This phone was made of plastic as well.

The J7 was the second phablet Samsung made that was affordable, after the E7 from the year before. It came with Lollipop, and had a 5.5" HD AMOLED display. It recently received a Marshmallow update like the J5,and it looks identical in pictures. But the phone is bigger, and had the exact same specs as the J5. But it looks a lot like the E7, except for the differently looking speaker grille and capacitive keys that lit up, and of course the missing LED selfie flash on the E7.

Next came something really surprising by Samsung, the J1 was back, but it didn't have Lollipop.
The J1 Ace had launched, and even if it didn't have Lollipop in the least, it still is one of our favourites from the J lineup. It came with a very pleasant shade of Sky Blue, a Dark Shade of Blue (they call it Black, but from close-up you will see it is a very dark shade of Blue) and a Pearl White colour was included too. And it had the exact same specs as the J1, so it didn't make much of a difference.

The Galaxy J2 was the next one in the list. It was the third Galaxy to have Android 5.1.1 and the new theme that came with the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+. It had a 4.7", an 8MP camera that recorded at 720p video quality and also recorded at 30fps. The front camera was a 2MP camera. The phone was a phone made of plastic, same as most of the Galaxy J series, and it came in Black, White and Gold.

Then the J3 was rumoured to come out in December 2015, but then it was cancelled and destined to be made later in a few months from then and to carry around the name of J3 (2016) or J3 6, like on the bootup.

Next came another model of the Galaxy J1, the 2016 model. This phone was the first ever Galaxy to have this cool new design, with a black part of the panel and a Gold or White front as well as the back. The black version looked cool too, and the front was made specially so you could make out the new design. It had the same specs as the original Galaxy J1 except for the bigger 4.5" display. It also launched with another model of itself, the Galaxy J1 Mini (2016) which was also known as the J1 Nxt. This phone was exactly the same except it had a smaller 4" display and no camera flash.

Then came the Galaxy J3 (2016), the phone long awaited. It had the same specs as the Galaxy J2, and a bigger 5" display and was able to record video at 1080p, but what was interesting about this phone is that it has the same design language as the Galaxy J1 (2016), so it was a good looking device.

The Galaxy J5 and J7 are one year old now. The 2016 models have been made three months ago in April, and were the first of the Galaxy J lineup to have Marshmallow out of the box, so that is really cool. These phones have the same specs as the older versions. The front hasn't changed much, but the back has a stretched LED flash and speaker on both phones. It really looks good and they are the first from the J lineup to have metal backs. The phone included Silver, Black, Gold and Rose Gold.

Then, in June, the Galaxy J3 Pro came out, still with Lollipop which is a nuisance, but it is made of metal and glass, which is the best thing about it, so it doesn't matter much.

Today, the Galaxy J MAX has been leaked by Even Blass from evleaks on Twitter, saying just one word: Self-explanatory.

This is a 7" tablet that will be compatible to LTE and is probably going to be as cheap as the Galaxy Tab A 7.0.

But if it comes out, it will be a really good compact tablet, or at least, we hope.

And that is about it with the history of the Galaxy J lineup.